xix, 570 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

From voyagers to martyrs : toward a storied history of mathematics / Amir Alexander -- Structure of crystal, bucket of dust / Peter Galison -- Deductive narrative and the epistemological function of belief in mathematics : on Bombelli and imaginary numbers / Federica La Nave -- Hilbert on theology and its discontents : the origin myth of modern mathematics / Colin McLarty -- Do androids prove theorems in their sleep? / Michael Harris -- Visions, dreams, and mathematics / Barry Mazur -- Vividness in mathematics and narrative / Timothy Gowers -- Mathematics and narrative : why are stories and proofs interesting? / Bernard Teissier -- Narrative and the rationality of mathematical practice / David Corfield -- A streetcar named (among other things) proof : from storytelling to geometry, via poetry and rhetoric / Apostolos Doxiadis -- Mathematics and narrative : an Aristotelian perspective / G.E.R. Lloyd -- Adventures of the diagonal : non-Euclidean mathematics and narrative / Arkady Plotinitsky -- Formal models in narrative analysis / David Herman -- Mathematics and narrative : a narratological perspective / Uri Margolin -- Tales of contingency, contingencies of telling : toward an algorithm of narrative subjectivity / Jan Christoph Meister

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